#mantispidae — Public Fediverse posts
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I love #MantisFlies (#Neuropera, #Mantispidae). Here's a handheld shot of #Spaminta minjerribae here in #Canberra last night.
This is one of the surprisingly large number of groups where #taxonomists seem to have given up trying to think of new genus names and just generate anagrams of older names. Mantispa -> Spaminta. In another neuropteran group, the genus name Ascalaphus has simply been reversed to give Suhpalacsa, which I can never type.